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Red Hat OpenStack 10.0 RHSA-2017:0200-01 Moderate: Info Disclosure

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Calendar Grey January 26, 2017
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A moderately serious update for puppet-swift within the Red Hat OpenStack Platform has been issued, successfully tackling a potential information exposure vulnerability.
An update for puppet-swift is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

puppet-swift is the Puppet module used by Red Hat OpenStack Platform director to install OpenStack Object Storage (swift).
Security Fix(es):
* An information-disclosure flaw was discovered in Red Hat OpenStack Platform director's installation of Object Storage (swift). During installation, the Puppet script responsible for deploying the service incorrectly removes and recreates the proxy-server.conf file with world-readable permissions. (CVE-2016-9590)
Red Hat would like to thank Hans Feldt (Ericsson) for reporting this issue.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity information disclosure Red Hat OpenStack puppet-swift

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-9590 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0:
Source: puppet-swift-9.4.3-3.el7ost.src.rpm
noarch: puppet-swift-9.4.3-3.el7ost.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0200-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0200.html
Issue date: 2017-01-26

Topic

An update for puppet-swift is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform10.0 (Newton).Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity information disclosure Red Hat OpenStack puppet-swift

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1410293 - CVE-2016-9590 puppet-swift: installs config file with world readable permissions

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